Advisory Panel

Purpose

The Big Darby Accord Advisory Panel was formed by the Big Darby Accord Plan as a voluntary advisory body to serve the public interest. The Panel reviews Applications from the Member Jurisdictions for property located within the Big Darby Tributary Area, and to provide advice to those Member Jurisdictions upon request.

Meetings

Meetings are open to the pubic and are held at 1:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month, or another date or time as may be decided by the Panel from time to time. If the second Tuesday is a holiday, the meeting will be moved to the preceding Monday. Meetings are held at Memorial Hall, (old COSI building - 280 East Broad Street. Columbus, Ohio 43215) unless otherwise decided by the Panel.

Members

The Big Darby Accord Advisory Panel consists of appointments from the following Member Jurisdictions: bullet

  • The City of Columbus (3 appointees)
  • Franklin County (2 appointees)
  • Brown Township (1 appointee)
  • Pleasant Township (1 appointee)
  • Prairie Township (1 appointee)
  • 1 appointee is selected by the panel as an At-Large Member

In addition, appointments may made if any of the following jurisdictions become a Member Jurisdiction:

  • The City of Hilliard (1 appointee)
  • Grove City (1 appointee)

 

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Brown Township Representative

The Board of Trustees of Brown Township are pleased to announce the appointment of Sheree Gossett-Johnson as the township representative to the Big Darby Accord Advisory Panel. Beginning January 2017, she fills the remaining term orginally filled by John Lux that expires May 30, 2019. Terms are for three years. Ms Gossett-Johnson joins a nine member committee that recommends to participaing jurisdictions whether or not a development should occur in the Big Darby Accord planning area.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Gossett-Johnson retired from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency where she spent 25 years in wastewater inspection with particular attention to the Darby watershed for part of that time. Previous to that, she was a wastewater plant operator in Fairborn. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Wright State University with a dual major in biology and chemistry.